Racial Slurs are also known as Ethnic Slurs. Racial Slurs should be illegal as it insults the ethnicity, causing the upcoming of many racial riots and it also reflects on your upbringing. Offending words such as Nigger , ABC ( Childish term for African bum-cleaner, can also be Aboriginal bum-cleaner by Australians. Obviously meant as an insult to any non-white person) and Nazi. Many do not know that calling the soldiers under Hitler Nazi's is a racial slurs. Even teachers teaching about WWII often use the term Nazi's to refer to the soldiers. Racial Slurs given to specific ethnic group to insult them just because they are of different skin colours. This would bring up the possibility of racial riots if an ethnic group could not tolerate anymore and “fight” with the other ethnic group. Insulting people shows that you have no manners and that your parents and teachers did not educate you well. Racial Slurs comes about when there is discrimination among ethnic groups.
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When I was in primary school, Malays made up about 20% of my cohort. Some Chinese students did not like the Malays and formed a group to "fight" against the Malays, saying that they were smelly, dirty and stupid. All the malay students were unhappy about this incident. Some began to form anti-Chinese groups while the others just waited patiently for the school to settle the issue. Luckily the matter was not that big and did not went out of hand. People who took part in the "fights" were caught and disciplinary actions were given to those people involved. From this experience, although I did not took part in the fights, I learn that every race are equal. The only difference is that they have diffferent believes.
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